Year 2 (Summer 2023)

Summer Camp for Year 2 (May 15 – June 15)

31 students attended the summer camp in-person or virtually. We started with a mini-workshop on the first day. The program consisted of three speakers from UH who gave seminars on Energy Transition:

• Chuck McConnell - Energy Center Officer, Center for Carbon Management in Energy, University of Houston
• Joseph Powell - Executive Director, Energy Transition Institute, University of Houston
• Ramanan Krishnamoorti - Chief Energy Officer and Vice President, Energy and Innovation, University of Houston

Cohort 1 gave poster presentations on their research projects:

• Team 1: Rate of Penetration Prediction Using Machine Learning Models (Winner)
• Team 2: Predicting Magma Fertility for Porphyry Copper Exploration Using Machine Learning (Runner-up)
• Team 3: The Future is Bright with Solar Forecast (Runner-up)
• Team 4: Exploring the Relationship Between Saltwater Disposal Wells and Earthquake Magnitudes in Oklahoma, 2019 (Poster 1 | Poster 2)
• Team 5: Project Crystal Ball Earth: Earthquake Travel-Time Prediction
• Team 6: Empowering the Energy Sector with AI: Forecasting Well Bottom Hole Temperature with Machine Learning Techniques on Geophysical Data

Overview of Summer Camp Curriculum and Schedule

• Week 1: Introduction to data science and Machine learning
• Week 2: Machine learning and data visualization
• Week 3: Geoscience
• Week 4: Statistics and Neural networks
• Week 5: Public policy

We concluded with a series of seminars by speakers from industry on the last day (June 15):

• Dr. Cheolkyun Jeong - Schlumberger
• Dr. Shuang (Shela) Jiang - Waste Management
• Brent Railey - Chevron Phillips Chemical
• Dr. Luchao (Lucas) Jin - eBay
• Dr. Pandu Devarakota - Shell

Year 2 (Summer 2023) Photos